Combined shirt and trunks



May 8, 1934. R. c. PAUL 1,957,726

COMBINED SHIRT AND TRUNKS Filed Nov. 7, 1933 @i KM Patented May 8, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 6 Claims.

This invention relates to a garment which combines an outer shirt and trunks. In my prior application on combination shirt and trunks, Serial No. 657,478, I disclosed a construction in which the front of the shirt was formed at its lower end with two substantially vertical free edges and at each side the shirt front was provided with a lateral extension or tongue which, in forming the shirt from the pattern, was carlo ried around across the back of the garment so that the end of the tongue was attached to its corresponding one of the free vertical edges referred to above and located near the center line of the shirt. This formed seatless trunks and in these trunks the upper edge of each lateral extension or tongue extended downwardly at the back in an inclined direction so as to give the effect of trunks with the seat cut out, and as the inclined upper edges of these tongues or extensions were 2Q not attached to each other, the parts cooperated to form trunks that were seatless and also crotchless. The fact that these trunks were crotchless gave considerable freedom of movement when the wearer of the garment assumed a seated posture on a toilet.

In the present invention, the garment is seatless but not crotchless. By reason of the presence of the crotch, there is less freedom of movement of the rear portion of the trunks.

The general object of this invention is to provide a construction for a garment of this kind in which, although the garment is provided with a crotch, the rear portion of the trunks will have a form which enables them to cooperate and afford necessary space at the rear of the garment.

In the construction disclosed in my former application, referred to above, the rear edges of the trunks converged toward each other in a downward direction so as to give substantially the form an of a V, and by reason of the fact that the garment was crotchless, the lower portion of this V could open laterally to a considerable extent.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a construction in which the presence of the crotch is compensated for by a greater width at the lower portion of the gap or space at the rear of the trunks which makes them seatless. In other words, although a crotch is employed, I have so changed the form of the gap or seatless portion of the trunks as to enable the garment to be practical and to prevent it from forming any hindrance in assuming any position necessary, as on a toilet.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment of this type in which the trunks are formed with a crotch operating to support the 9 Further objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists of the novel parts and combinations of parts to be described hereinafter, all of which contribute to produce an efficient combined shirt and trunks.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in the following specification, while the broad scope of the invention is pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a front elevation of a garment embodying this invention and showing a portion of the front of the garment broken away so as to disclose the rear line of the trunks and so as to show a portion of the garment in cross section.

Fig. 2 is a perspective, illustrating the lower portion of the garment with the trunks displaced upwardly to illustrate the location of the crotch seams.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the garment upon g a reduced scale with a portion of the tail of the shirt broken away to further illustrate the construction.

Fig. 4 is a view illustrating two patterns, one

a right pattern and the other a left pattern,

which I prefer to employ for forming the shirt front and the trunks.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the garment comprises a front 1 which is formed at the front with two free edges 2 and 3 to correspond to the edges 2a and 3a of the pattern shown in Fig. 4. These edges are substantially vertical and are located substantially on the central line of the garment. The shirt front is provided with two laterally extending tongues 4 which correspond to the tongues 4a of the pattern, and these tongues have terminal edges 5 which are substantially vertical but preferably slightly inclined as shown in Fig. 4. The shirt front 1 may be made in one piece if desired, but is preferably constructed of two pieces 6 and 7, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

Above the terminal edges 5 the tongues are preferably formed with outer edges 8, and the tongues are also formed with upper inclined edges 9 which extend down from a point 10 at each side at about the waistline. These edges 9 are inclined at a small angle from the vertical, and preferably merge below into a concave edge 11 which connects to the upper end of the corresponding outer edge 8.

In constructing the trunks, the tongues 4 are brought around to the rear of the garment and each edge 5 is connected to its corresponding one of the vertical edges 2 and 3. As pointed out above, these edges correspond to the edges 2a and 3a of the pattern. These edges are connected by a sewed seam and the result of this is that two closed legs are formed for the trunks. The edges 8 are also connected together to form a crotch seam 12 (see Fig. 2). If the garment is formed with two front sections, 6 and 7, I prefer to provide two central laterally inclined edges 13 and these edges 13 are attached together to form a forward crotch seam 14.

By forming the garment in this way, it will be seen that the edges 9 which form the upper and outer edges of the trunks, will incline downwardly and converge toward each other, and the concave portions 11 will combine with each other to form an edge 11a that extends in a general horizontal direction transversely across the rear of the garment. In other words, in the completed garment, the rear upper edge of the trunks and the inclined side edges 9 come together at points located toward the sides of the garment. The point of connection of the two concave edges 11 is supported in position by the rear crotch seam 12.

When a garment of this kind is constructed in this way, it will be evident that there is a considerable gap 15 (see Fig. 1) that forms a deep wide notch of general U shapelocated atthe seatless portion of the trunks, giving all necessary freedom of movement. At the same time, the middle portion of the trunksat the rear, although it doesnot extend up to a great height, it might otherwise be flimsy and tend to fall over, is supported in position by the crotch seam 12.

The garment is provided with a back. 16, the lower end of which forms a shirt tail 17 that covers the seatless portion of the trunks and preferably extends down on the outer side below this point.

It will be noted that theedges- 9- converge toward each other, so that they would intersectat a point well below the crotch of the wearer.

What I claim is:-

1. A garment constituting a combined shirt and trunks, said garment having a shirt front with a pair of substantially vertical central edges, said front having a lateral tongue at each side with a terminal edge, each tongue extending around to the back of the garment and having its terminal edge attached to the corresponding one of the said substantially vertical edges to form trunks with closed legs, the rear portion of each trunk leg being cut away to form seatless trunks and having a downwardly extending upper edge at each side extending down from a point near the waistline and approaching the center line of the shirt in a downward direction, said trunks having a transverse rear upper edge extending across the center line, extending above the crotch of the garment in a general horizontal direction and merging into said inclined upper edges, so as to give the upper rear edge of the trunks the form of a deep notch of substantially U form, said garment having a back with a tail extending down and covering the rear side of the trunks.

2. A garment constituting a combined shirt and trunks, said garment having a shirt front with a pair of substantially vertical central edges, said front having a lateral tongue at each side with a terminal edge, each tongue extending around to the back of the garment and having its terminal edge attached to the corresponding one of the said substantially vertical edges to form trunks with closed legs, the rear portion of each trunk leg being cut away to form seatless trunks and having an upper edge at each side extending down from a point near the waistline along a line inclined at a small angle from the vertical and approaching the center line of the shirt in a downward direction, said trunks having a transverse rear upper edge extending across the center line of the garment in a general horizontal direction extending above the crotch and merging into said inclined. upper edges, said garment having a back with a tail extending down to cover the seatless portion of the trunks.

3. A garment constituting a combined shirt and trunks and consisting of a shirt front having two substantially vertical central edges located at its lower end, said front having a lateral tongue at each side with a terminal edge, each lateral tongue extending around across the rear of the garment and attached to its corresponding one of the said substantially vertical edges to form a closed trunk leg, each of. said tongues-having an outer inclined edge adjacent its terminal edge, said outer inclined edges being. attached together to form a crotch seam of the trunks, said lateral tongue having upper edges extending downwardly at each side from a point at about the waistline in a general vertical direction and approaching the center line of the garment ina downward direction, said trunks having a rear upper edge extending transversely across the garment in a general horizontal. direction extending above the crotch and merging into said downwardly inclined upper edges, said garment having. a back with a tail extending downwardly and lying on the outer side of the trunks at the back.

4. A garment consisting of a combined shirt and trunks having a shirt front, seatless trunks extending. down from the shirt front, the rear upper edge of said trunks toward the sides being disposed on lines inclined at a small angle from the vertical, extending down from the sides and converging. toward each other, and having a transverse upper edge at the back at a low level extending in a: general horizontal direction above the crotch across the rear and merging into said inclined edges, and a back for the shirt with a tail covering the seatless portion of the trunks.

5. A garment constituting a combined shirt and trunks, said garment having a shirt front with a pairof substantially vertical central edges, said front having a lateral tongue at each side with a terminal edge, each tongue extending around to the back of the garment and having its terminal edge attached to the corresponding one of the said substantially vertical edges to form trunks with closed legs, the rear portion of each trunk leg being cut away to form seatless trunks and having a downwardly extending upper edge at each side extending down from a point near the waistline and approaching the center line of the shirt in a downward direction, said trunks having a transverse rear upper edge extending across the center line of the garment in a general horizontal direction, extending above the crotch, said transverse rear. upper edge and said downwardly extending upper edges coming together toward the sides of the garment, said garment having a back with a tail extending. down to cover the seatless portion. of the trunks.

. 6. A. garment consisting of a combined: shirt tending in a general horizontal direction, extending above the crotch across the rear, said transverse upper edge and said downwardly extending inclined lines meeting together toward the sides of the garment, and a back for the shirt with a tail covering the seatless portion of the trunks. RICHARD 0. PAUL. 

